To learn about available sponsorship packages, please contact Kelly Fiedler at +1.781.839.8041 or via email: kfiedler@unica.com.

Sponsors

Unica's partners extend our Affinium solution with complementary functionality, market knowledge and implementation expertise. We are excited to announce the following partners as MIS 2008 sponsors.

Platinum Sponsors At Acxiom we make information intelligent.  As the global leader in customer information management, we transform data into actionable business insight – and we do it better than anyone else. Acxiom’s enterprise information solutions help the world’s largest and most successful companies increase revenue, reduce cost, improve profit and lower risk.  Our industry-centric lines of business include:  Customer Data Integration, Database Services, Data Products, IT Services, Digital, Risk Mitigation, Direct Marketing and Consulting.   Epsilon – including its Abacus division – is a 21st Century Marketing Services Company that uses consumer and business data together with proven techniques to maximize marketing power for clients worldwide. Services include strategic consulting, database and loyalty technology, proprietary data, predictive modeling and a full range of creative and interactive services including brand and promotional development, web design, email deployment, search engine optimization and direct mail production. Among other notables, Epsilon is the world’s largest permission-based email marketer. Epsilon is an Alliance Data company. Learn how to: think about marketing operations as a strategic advantage, understand how to make ideas and execution work together, and identify approaches that may help your business. For more information, visit www.epsilon.com.   Pinpoint Systems Corporation is a leading provider of marketing solutions and marketing software implementation services that help increase the overall profitability of a company’s marketing programs. Our consultants are expert marketers and technologists with a truly creative approach for linking marketing processes and technology systems. We serve Fortune 500 and mid-market companies across vertical markets. Our clients benefit from our proven, scalable solutions that are customized to their unique business needs. For more information about Pinpoint Systems Corporation, please call 800-809-0612 or email info@pinpoint-corp.com. You may also visit us at www.pinpoint-corp.com.   Quaero is a marketing and technology services company that provides unparalleled value to firms looking to improve the effectiveness of their comprehensive marketing efforts and marketing technology investments. We help our clients holistically diagnose and solve marketing problems with strategic, organizational, process, operational, analytic and technology solutions. Bringing to every engagement a deep knowledge of marketing combined with industry-specific experience, our comprehensive approach allows us to improve upon all aspects of marketing performance. For more information, call 1-877-570-2199 ext 5050, or visit the Quaero web site at www.quaero.com.   Gold Sponsors Accenture is widely regarded as the leading provider of customer relationship management solutions and managed services designed to deliver high performance to your business. Accenture helps to infuse organizations with strategic insight, sophisticated data analysis, advanced technology and operational excellence. Combining experience, innovation and a global delivery network, our professionals team with clients across virtually all industries to create customer experiences that enable growth, increased profitability and high performance. See how at www.accenture.com.   Allant is a leading Marketing Service Provider that leverages predictive intelligence, strategic and analytic services and marketing automation to maximize marketing spend productivity, strategy and results for its clients. Founded in 1984, Allant has built core competencies in data management, database services, analytics and strategy which are delivered by highly skilled professionals.   The Argos Group provides the deepest Affinium Suite experience available in the industry. Our consultants specialize in large scale implementations, upgrades and complex enterprise production operations support. Argos delivers successful inbound and outbound marketing automation, MRM and customer centric business intelligence solutions. Argos has developed a unique set of analysis tools and monitoring utilities especially adapted for Affinium application environments to ensure highly available marketing systems. For more information, call 877-939-2800 or email info@argosgrp.com.   Covalent Marketing believes long-term success begins with “Bonding You to Your Customer."  Let us help you leverage strategic differentiators into effective customer interactions by adding our expertise, experience and thought leadership to your own. We develop effective customer interactions while growing your company's marketing capabilities.  From upgrading your Affinium Suite, to examining how to positively impact your customer experiences, Covalent Marketing will be there for you! Visit us @ www.covalentmarketing.com.     Silver Sponsors   AmberLeaf provides strategic, analytic and technology consulting services to help companies with their sales and marketing capabilities.  As experts in database marketing, our services are aimed at organizations trying to improve their ability to implement closed loop marketing, develop a single view of their customers (B-to-C or B-to-B), leverage advanced analytics, streamline lead management, and implement innovative loyalty programs.  AmberLeaf resources have been working with Unica for over ten years and have completed eight version 7 implementations.   ChoicePoint Precision Marketing (CPPM) provides marketing solutions to clients whose acquisition, retention and growth programs must deliver results. Our direct marketing solutions combine comprehensive data, analytical services, database development and management, as well as campaign creation and execution teams utilizing Affinium Campaign. Together with our inbound and outbound teleservices, creative design, and lettershop capabilities we offer a full suite of marketing services and products. CPPM brings these services together with industry expertise and a passion for responsible marketing.   Harte-Hanks is a worldwide direct and targeted marketing company that provides direct marketing services and shopper advertising opportunities to consumer and business-to-business marketers.  We develop data-driven strategies for customer acquisition and retention, and execute on those strategies in an integrated fashion across all media channels.  Further, we help our clients measure every aspect of their marketing and customer care campaigns, providing them with knowledge to refine campaigns, and delivering continuous improvement and innovation.   The Modeling Agency (TMA) is a structured team of senior-level data mining consultants. In its relationship with Unica, TMA guides marketing analysts in developing an internal ‘predictive modeling factory’ with Affinium Model while reinforcing the skills to assume confident ownership of the resulting process. TMA also produces a popular public data mining course series for managers and stakeholders investigating capabilities and best practices, followed by a methods and techniques orientation for practitioners seeking to extend their analytical toolbox.   Netezza is the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances that dramatically simplify high-performance analytics for business users across the extended enterprise, delivering significant competitive and operational advantage in today’s information-intensive marketplaces. The Netezza Performance Server® (NPS®) family of streaming analytic™ appliances brings appliance simplicity to a broad range of complex data warehouse and analytic challenges. Customers who have recognized the benefits of Netezza’s approach include Catalina Marketing, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Epsilon and Ross Stores.   RiverPoint is a full-service Systems Integration consulting firm with over two decades of experience. We provide custom integration and application development, implementation services, infrastructure support and ongoing mentoring to ensure the success of our clients’ projects. At RiverPoint, we are focused that each engagement’s primary goals are achieved; driving performance, increasing operational efficiency and generating bottom-line results. Our unique approach allows us to optimize the return on investment within our clients’ enterprise marketing initiatives.   For over 10 years SRC, LLC has delivered geographic business intelligence solutions to Fortune 500 companies, empowering business leaders with the consumer and market insight needed to reduce the risks associated with critical business decisions. In 2007, SRC announced its strategic alliance with Unica Corporation. This alliance offers a combined solution for building and deploying Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) solutions with improved customer identification, data integration, data quality and spatial intelligence. Visit us at www.extendthereach.com.     Bronze Sponsors Client Spectrum specializes exclusively in consulting services related to Unica® Corporation’s Affinium Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) suite. Client Spectrum consultants understand how to accelerate marketing benefits resulting from the implementation of the various Affinium suite components. Client Spectrum is in a position to assist clients on a worldwide basis in various languages including English, French, Spanish and Arabic. Client Spectrum consultants have working experience in more than 20 countries.